SPORTS DIGEST || Leone signs with Malone University
Leone signs with Malone University
Vince Leone from Canfield signed a letter of intent to play golf at Malone University. During his Canfield career, Leone earned All-American Conference (AAC) Red Division first team honors as a junior and senior. Additionally, this past season he was named to the Division I all-district team.
Leone also plays basketball and is a member of the National Honor Society (NHS), student council, yearbook and newspaper staff.
Yazdani FG lifts Ohio past Miami (OH), 24-21
OXFORD
Josiah Yazdani kicked a 29-yard field goal as time expired to lift Ohio to a win over Miami (OH) in “The Battle of the Bricks.”
Jordan Reid hauled in a 5-yard touchdown pass from Derrius Vick with 11:28 left to tie the 91st meeting between the teams at 21-21.
Yazdani missed a 42-yard attempt with under two minutes left. Miami (2-10, 2-6 Mid-American) drove to the Ohio 45 yard line, but the drive stalled and the RedHawks sailed the ensuing punt into the end zone for a touch back.
After running for a first down at the Miami 33, Vick found Chase Cochran for 18 yards and Brendan Cope for 38 yards for a first down at the Miami 11, where Yazdani booted the game-winner.
The Bobcats (6-6, 4-4 MAC) now have won eight of the past nine meetings.
US pair gets 1964 bronze medal
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
The International Olympic Committee has corrected the standings of the 1964 Winter Olympics pairs competition to show the American sibling team of Vivian Joseph and Ronald Joseph as the bronze medalists.
In addition, two silver medals have been listed for the event by the IOC.
In 1966, the IOC awarded the Josephs the bronze medal after declaring the West German pair Marika Kilius and Hans-J 5/8rgen Bdumler had violated their amateur status by signing a professional contract. With the West Germans stripped of their silver medal, all but the gold medalists moved up one placement.
But the IOC reinstated Kilius-Baumler in 1987. On Tuesday, it finally listed the Germans as silver medalists along with Canada’s Debbi Wilkes and Guy Revell. Russia’s great pairs team of Ludmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov won the event.
Messi sets European record with 74 goals
NICOSIA, Cyprus
Barcelona’s Lionel Messi scored a hat trick to shatter the Champions League goalscoring record on Tuesday by taking his tally in the competition to 74. The previous record of 71 had been set by former Real Madrid and Schalke striker Raul over the course of 142 matches.
Raul’s record fell when Messi struck his first in the 38th minute against APOEL in Group F to give Barcelona a 2-0 lead after Luis Suarez had opened the scoring. It was Messi’s 91st match in Europe’s top club competition.
He then struck again in the 58th and 87th minutes.
It was his 28th Barcelona hat trick, and his fifth in the Champions League.
Tennis HOF says ‘Dodo’ Cheney has died
NEWPORT, R.I.
The International Tennis Hall of Fame says Dorothy “Dodo” Cheney, a member of the Hall and the first American woman to win the tournament now known as the Australian Open, has died at age 98.
The Hall says Tuesday that Cheney died Sunday in Escondido, California, following a brief illness.
She was inducted in 2004, and was introduced at the ceremony by fellow member John McEnroe.
In addition to her 1938 singles title at the Australian Championships, Cheney reached the semifinals at least once at each of the other three Grand Slam tournaments and was ranked in the top 10 in the 1930s and 1940s.
According to the U.S. Tennis Association, Cheney won nearly 400 USTA national titles across various age groups.
Staff/wire reports